I love to shoot a quiet moment at a cafe as I'm breezing by enroute to somewhere else.I browse cafes rather than sit in them. Who has the time?

You know that your coffee will be much cheaper if you stand up at the bar or le zinc... You're paying rent when you sit down at a table don't forget. At least they don't charge you more when you sit by the window...

Yadda-yadda-yadda - a cafe is like an after hours party. Yackity-yack. Doesn't matter if a trillion people are passing by. No one is distracted from their intense conversations.

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I love to sit in cafes. It's where I write or sketch or just watch the world go by. My favorite is one where I have breakfast in the morning on the right bank as you cross over L'Alma bridge. When the waiter see me coming, he has my coffee ready.

Oooh yes I have my favourite cafes dotted around Melbourne where I spend hours reading papers and magazines and people watching! The best thing is a Lindt Chocolate shop opened this month and they sell.... 12 flavours of macarons! Known as 'Delice' in their shop. I have to say, they are even better than Laduree macarons. Cost eqivalent of 1 euro and have very generous filling, so delice-ious and I don't need to travel to Paris, yay! Susi

I guess it shouldn't surprise us that place-based advertising has finally hit the cafe tables. When the economy's down it's any port in a storm. But I have to say I like them better the old way. Enough with the commercial clutter.

Oh I love those photos! They make me think of the cafes I visited in Spain and Italy. I have never been to France, but I am dying to go someday soon so I can sit at one of those cafes and people watch all day!

My favorite cafe at home is Cafe Vanille. Its a small French cafe in Beacon Hill with really good coffee and croissants.

Cafes are such cool, lovely, social gathering spots. Of course, my visits to "Parisian" cafes occur only when I visit PB ;)

The upside though, is that I make the yummiest, most incredible coffee all by myself! Honestly, I prefer it to all cafes and coffee shops I've ever been to. BUT...I've "never" tasted a macaron. You're all shocked. I know. Good thing for PB and imagination qui?

Cafe-cafe - cafe - where is there a cafe? Oh, can I count outdoor seating at restaurants? Outside Starbucks? Even then, non, I don't sit and ponder or draw or anything...our ciimate has so few pleasant days that, when it is finally nice, I prefer to garden!

I'm with you on this one, Carol--give me a plain top cafe table--so classic. Love these photos and your wonderful painting here! Incidentally, David is the NICEST man!! Merci beaucoups! Everyone is so pleasant. xoxo

Hello, it has been over a year since I Emailed you about your water colours. I am sitting here answering my mail after a five hour flight home to Oregon from Manhattan. How nice to see your work on my screen. I am a photo novice yet a patient artist. I enjoy your images ! I played music professionally for 35 years , now restore and build Harley's.T he message I wish to send is, I love the spirit you have with what you do. I look forward to your post, Thanks, Bob.......... ps, great tables

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I moved to Paris 2 years ago. I should have done it sooner but that's how the macaron crumbles. Living on the Ile Saint Louis next to the Seine after the 19eme is 'la cerise sur la gâteau'. It doesn't get any better. I've painted watercolors for Bocuse, Champagne Mumm, Guerlain, Frederick Cassel, The Russian Tearoom and the Maharana of Udaipur.
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